Posted on 07/21/2014 12:46:30 AM PDT by Morgana
LONGMEADOW, Mass (WWLP) — While Saturday wasn’t too hot or humid, like most of our summer has been, 22News found that our recent weather conditions have contributed to the arrival of a potentially deadly disease in the Bay State.
Mosquitoes: we’ve talked about them for months, and for the first time this year mosquitoes have infected someone in Massachusetts with eastern equine encephalitis, or triple E.
The Massachusetts Department of Health just confirmed that a July 15th laboratory test in Plymouth County has tested positive for EEE, a dangerous virus that can cause inflammation of the brain and in one third of cases, death.
Even though the only reported case of EEE in Massachusetts was more than 80 miles to our east, our chances in western Massachusetts of getting it just went up. But it probably wouldn’t be the mosquitoes bringing it here.
Birds are typically the long range carrier of triple E, taking the disease over many miles. Mosquitoes then bite the birds and become the local source for infection when they bite a human.
Entomologist Bob Russell of American Pest Solutions told 22News, “Mosquitoes are an unusual insect because bacteria can survive in its gut and then it can be regurgitated or come out in its saliva when it bites, and that’s how you get transmission.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wwlp.com ...
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Nope, we were home, clean every thing, might have come in when the dogs were let out at night. Nat size.
Warning any one wanting to visit Memphis DO NOT go to the Rendezvous for Ribs, WORST crap I’ve ever tasted. Cold, tough, little meat, greasy, baked beans were canned pork and beans with BBQ sauce and slaw was a soupy mustard based garbage. Served on paper plates and plastic utensils. No glass for a beer either.
Is this the same crap they served GWB and the Japanese guy? I left my party of 5 including my husband and went to Huey’s for a great Burger and Fries. Told Nick Vargas he served crap food not worth paying for.
No, we've talked about this for decades.
Bring back DDT.
[curse you, Rachel Carson]
And you do realize more and more mosquito populations are becoming fully immune to DDT, don’t you?
No, I did not.
How could they be when it’s supposedly been banned everywhere for so long?
Not good news.
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